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Examples of Conventional Wisdom--Chapter 4

  • Father knows best.

  • If you can’t say something nice, say nothing at all.

  • A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

  • Pride goes before a downfall.

  • A penny saved is a penny earned.

  • Trust no one over 30.

  • Here today, gone tomorrow.

  • Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.--Scottish Proverb

  • Hair today, gone tomorrow.

  • A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.--Don Herold (1889-- 1966), U.S. humorist

  • Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

  • Do unto others before they can do unto you.

  • Honor thy Father and thy Mother.

  • Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.--Richard Armour (1906-1989), U.S. humorous writer

  • Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.--Wendell Johnson (1906--1965), U.S. speech pathologist and general semanticist

  • Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.--Phyllis Diller, (1917-- ), U.S. comedienne

  • Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.--Mark Twain (1835-1910)

  • Buy land, they're not making it any more.--Mark Twain (1835-1910), U.S. writer

  • Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

  • Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.--Paul Dickson, U.S. journalist/writer

  • When God closes a door, he opens a window.

  • Don't take yourself too seriously.

  • Don't take yourself too seriously. And don't be too serious about not taking yourself too seriously.--Howard Ogden

  • You break it, you buy it.

  • Know thyself.

  • Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.--Ann Landers (1918--2002), U.S. advice columnist

  • Never look a gift horse in the mouth.--St. Jerome (345--420), "On the Epistle to the Ephesians," ca. 420 A.D

  • Always choose the lesser of two evils.

  • Of two evils, choose neither.--Charles H. Spurgeon (1834--1892), English Baptist preacher/writer

  • You can't have everything. Where would you put it?--Steven Wright, Omni, 1984

  • Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. --Chinese Proverb

  • Children should be seen and not heard

  • People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

  • Lost time is never found again. --Benjamin Franklin

  • Education is to teach men not what to think but how to think. Calvin Coolidge